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New comment by joshwcomeau in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

joshwcomeau — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:51:00 +0000

I guess that depends on how you define "think". I wouldn't say that AI thinks.

I admit the analogies aren't perfect, but the analogies are mostly used to help explain the empirical stuff I’m seeing in the real world. Are you seeing something different?

New comment by joshwcomeau in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

joshwcomeau — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:47:01 +0000

> Fewer developers required to achieve the same things means a lot of people are going to be unemployed

I don’t think that's a foregone conclusion. Every company I’ve worked for has had a huge list of tasks we'd do if we had more engineering resources. There's never been a shortage of worthwhile things we could do, it's always been ruthless prioritization to find the 10% of tasks that are the most important.

Look up Jevons' Paradox. This is a thing that has happened a bunch of times before.

New comment by joshwcomeau in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

joshwcomeau — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:40:16 +0000

For context, this was a newsletter issue sent as part of a marketing campaign for my latest course. It was an elephant in the room in the sense that up until that point, my marketing campaign hadn't talked about AI.

This is the "view on web" link designed for people to read my emails if they don't display correctly in their email client . It’s not really intended for a broader audience.

New comment by joshwcomeau in "Whimsical Animations Course Open House"

joshwcomeau — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:32:15 +0000

New comment by joshwcomeau in "Whimsical Animations Course Open House"

joshwcomeau — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:31:02 +0000

Oh hi HN! I'm Josh, the creator of this course.

For context, Whimsical Animations is my new course that focuses on creating beyond-the-basics animations and interactions with modern CSS, JS, SVG, and Canvas. When I launch new courses, I make a few lessons public for a few days. It’s always a bit tricky since most lessons in my course are part of a larger linear arc, and don't really make sense as standalone lessons. I tried to pick stuff that would be independently valuable, rather than it just being a demonstration of the course format / my teaching style.

You can learn more about the course on its homepage (https://whimsy.joshwcomeau.com/), since it doesn't really explain much on the Open House page.

Scroll-Driven Animations: Exploring the majestic new animation-timeline API

joshwcomeau — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:30:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/scroll-driven-animations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935954

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Squash and Stretch: CSS animation design technique

joshwcomeau — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:19:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/squash-and-stretch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779344

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Sprites on the Web

joshwcomeau — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:35:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/sprites/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47124650

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New layouts with CSS Subgrid

joshwcomeau — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:57:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/subgrid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047053

Points: 309

# Comments: 98

The Big Gotcha With starting-style

joshwcomeau — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:22:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/starting-style/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45333873

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Color Shifting in CSS

joshwcomeau — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:53:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/color-shifting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45173089

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by joshwcomeau in "How do I get into the game industry"

joshwcomeau — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:03:21 +0000

++. I find it kinda baffling that people assume that the ideal endgame is "AI makes whatever the user wants". What I want is to have interesting novel experiences crafted by talented people. I have no interest in playing a randomly-generated composite of a bunch of existing games. What would be the point?

An interactive guide to SVG paths

joshwcomeau — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:19:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/interactive-guide-to-paths/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44941605

Points: 455

# Comments: 44

New comment by joshwcomeau in "Eleven Music"

joshwcomeau — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:46:54 +0000

This stuff is such an abomination. What a terrible thing to release into the world.

A Friendly Introduction to SVG

joshwcomeau — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:50:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly-introduction-to-svg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44635800

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

The Height Enigma: Unraveling the mystery of percentage-based heights in CSS

joshwcomeau — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:59:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/height-enigma/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43963811

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by joshwcomeau in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

joshwcomeau — Tue, 06 May 2025 22:20:24 +0000

++. Was surprised I had to scroll so far to find someone saying this!

The Post-Developer Era

joshwcomeau — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:56:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/the-post-developer-era/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43682020

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by joshwcomeau in "Deconstructing the "Whimsical Animations" landing page"

joshwcomeau — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:56:49 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

New comment by joshwcomeau in "Deconstructing the "Whimsical Animations" landing page"

joshwcomeau — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:53:06 +0000

I added a note about this a bit later in the post, but the issue was that all of the optimization services I use strip out the color profile, and I don’t know enough about webp or avif to re-add it. Other than re-saving it, which increases the size since it decompresses everything.